haha, i suppose, if you had a choice of contaminating the entire river valley with radioactive chemicals or kill a couple of researchers and professors, i'd also choose to kill the academics, but still...

... and no, that's not some sort of underlying grudge against my supervisors coming through, i promise!

I'm sure there's some emergency plan to blow all the windows. Although, given the hazardous substances present in the building, would you want to vent it?

On that note, Happy Birthday, Pam!

Can't remember the ESB having any good ventilation. But like you said if it passes inspection and regulation then it must be safe. Though it is suprising what we let pass. Working in manufacturing really opens your eyes to what we let pass. Lets just say I'm suprised anything works at all. Apparently the standards we have for oilfield equipment is much more strict then parts for automobiles. You'd be suprised at what we let thru. Yep I'm surpised anything we use still works. Not to scare you or anything Alison, just how things work I guess.

nope.


the agfor building is entirely populated by agriculture and nutrition people... i am in ESB... the building of solid glass... and nasty chemicals.

there's this book-length release form, or whatever in a box by the main doors that lists all the various and sundry restricted chemicals (particularly radioactive) that are housed within our walls, and it strikes me that... were there to be a spill of something and you were in your office... if the air started to fill with noxious fumes, you'd be dead... there isn't anything to be done. if you're in a lab, you could climb into the fume hood or something, but not in an office...


i mean, it's not unlike every other building on campus, except Chem West... whose lovely windows open into the Chem East corridor (oh how that makes me laugh) ... and while i seriously think that the university ought to have better ventillation everywhere, if they all passed inspection, they must be okay, right?

i mean, the fact that we get enveloped in whatever napthalene-like substance it is the chem 161 students are creating as we march through the halls suggests that there should be better venting of labs. But, if it was actually toxic, they'd have solved the problem, wouldn't they? or am i being naive?

Is that in the Agfor building?

And...



HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAM!!!

Albert, I was being facetious. I know they're not going to cut a hole in the ceiling... it just strikes me that the majority of ventillation for the building happens to be via fume hoods found only in designated labs

I'm not a HVAC (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning) engineer but I'm pretty sure there is a ventilating procedure fro the building. Cutting a hole in a building's celiling doesn't gurantee much circulation of air or fumes. You probally have to force the circulation with fans and such.

Happy Birthday Pam!

so... our hallway smells like a chemical spill... something rather acrid and aromatic... kind of like if you spilled paint and then cleaned it up with ammonia... but where it's coming from, i don't know... my office smells fine, the lab i can get into also smells fine, and the other lab i visited smells fine too... what mad scientist is poisoning the hallway?? or maybe the maintenance folk used the most horrid-smelling paint ever in our building...


it brought forward an interesting thought though... all these bulildings, especially high-rises where you can't open windows are really vulnerable to any sort of chemical contamination... and then people like me who can smell it probably leave before anything bad happens, but people like the other guy who's here this early who can't smell a damned thing are gonna die!

haha, i'm sure we're not going to die... but what if the chemical smell is because of something particularly toxic? what then? we're lucky because we got here early and smelled it? I'm lucky because I can smell when I'm not around it? or the whole damned building's going to have to be evacuated so that they can cut a hole in the ceiling (or whatever they do) to get the stink out...?